Gifts from the Borrego Desert Nature Center

Home and Office, Jewelry, Caps & Tees, Books, Kids, ABDNHA

Gambel’s Quail artisan-handcrafted in steel. Buy a flock and parade them across your patio or dance them down your dining room table. Waltz them around your worktable or along your office windowsill. Adult, 9” tall, $44.95. Chick, 5.5” tall, $21.95.

Everybody’s favorite bird. Above, it’s a perky artisan-crafted steel roadrunner. Think of him/her running across your desk, looking in the window, waiting for you by the door. 9”tall, 12” from beak to tip of tail. $27.95.

Art tiles for decoration. Photography and painting are combined in a Sedona studio to bring lovely growing outdoor images inside. Choose between the elegant claret cup and our favorite ballerina, the ocotillo. 6” square, $16.95.

Bring life into the kitchen. Out of the ordinary tea towels ($6.95) and pot holders ($5.95). Stunning embroidery on heavy duty cotton. Kokopelli on turquoise, el sol on rust, chiles on black, and hummingbird on clay.

Georgia O’Keefe Landscapes. Four each of four different paintings by one of our most treasured artists. She brings the West to life with vivid color. 9 x 4 ½” notecards and envelopes (no extra postage needed). $15.95.

Marvelous mugs. Stop in to see them. Stunning critters in wonderful colors. Heavy ceramic mugs for coffee, tea, cocoa, soup, even hot buttered rum for the holidays. Dishwasher and microwave safe. You and the kids will really love them.

ABDNHA's 2012 Anza-Borrego Desert Desk Calendar. A handy 4 ½ by 8 ¼ spiral-bound calendar to stand on the desk as a reminder of our desert’s beauty…and the date. Our own writer and photographer Bill Sullivan has created the perfect gift for everyone on your list from Boston to Borrego. It’s a daily reminder of this gorgeous wonderland we love. $9.95.

More arts and crafts for the home or office

Desert-inspired Jewelry

Multi-stone spiral necklace and earrings. Swirls of sterling silver set with stunning symmetrical stones of turquoise, onyx, coral and more. Earrings for pierced ears. $39.95. Sparkling 18” silver chain with pendant, $39.95. $75 for set. Also turquoise alone set in sterling silver.

Perfect T-shirts and Ball Caps for the Desert

Roadrunner cap and tee. Left, your roadrunner is embroidered on a great green adjustable 100% cotton cap. Every guy & gal should have one. $15.95. Right, two of ‘em race across the front of a soft, washable ivory cotton tee. Adult small to XL, $17.95. XXL to XXXL, $19.95. Kids XS to L, $14.95.

Gift Books

The Historic Back Country, by Chris Wray. A geographic guide to the historic places of the San Diego County Mountains and the Colorado Desert. 3rd ed. Nearly 1700 listings, 430 photos, over 1200 coordinates for map and GPS use. Over 40 topographic maps. Wow! $39.95.

San Diego County Native Plants. By James Lightner. Third edition. 428 photo-illustrated pages with extensive index. $34.95, paper. Describes more than 1,400 taxa of native and naturalized plants, including plants of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Coverage of all parts of the the county, including desert, transition zone (chaparral), mountains, foothills, and coast.

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Gifts for Kids

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, written and illustrated by Paul Goble. Caldecott Award-winning story of a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe’s horses. $6.99. Combine with our royal blue or red cotton tee-shirt, XS, S, M, L. $13.50. For the little girls in your life.

Give the gift of ABDNHA

Give an ABDNHA Gift Membership! Introduce someone to the vast wonders of plant and animal life in our desert—also, water, rocks, petroglyphs, history, stars. A perfect introductory or house-warming gift to say "Welcome to the desert."

Surprise package! A one-year membership in ABDNHA includes five issues of The Sand Paper, an Anza-Borrego license plate frame, car decal, wildflower brochure, Anza-Borrego Desert map, Paul Johnson’s wonderful Weekender’s Guide for perfect Anza-Borrego visits. $48.96.

Shop the Borrego Desert Nature Center, 652 Palm Canyon Drive, Borrego Springs, California.
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